Re: The 10k Twitter Target

2018-04-18 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 April 2018 at 08:39:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you have a Twitter handle, it would help us out to retweet anything interesting you see on @D_Programming. The link in the navbar should probably link to this twitter handle rather than the hash tag.

Re: DConf 2018 Hackathon -- now open to the public free of charge

2018-03-27 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 14:04:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Yesterday, I made the announcement that the Hackathon would be open to anyone willing to pay $100 to get in. That idea has now been nixed. Instead, anyone can come in for the full day completely free. It's like a big Munich Meetup!

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-06 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 12:21:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: That being said, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to have std.experimental be in its own repository. This allows selection of the dependency on std.experimental separate from phobos. It still would be an "official"

Re: Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

2018-01-12 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 13:59:28 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: ... While I believe my library has certain API advantages, I'm really not interested in duplicating a bunch of work when rumbu's version is pretty much complete, so I'm dropping this.

Re: Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 15:44:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:38:45PM +, Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 15:22:01 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Very nice to see this taking shape. What's the link to the > code

Re: Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 15:22:01 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Very nice to see this taking shape. What's the link to the code again? https://github.com/JackStouffer/stdxdecimal

Re: Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

2018-01-05 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 13:59:28 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: ... Updated version out: * Added unary +,-,++,-- * Added casting to bool and floating point types * Added static ctors for infinite and nan for floating point type compatibility * Added abs, isNaN, isInfinite * Added

Re: Release D 2.078.0

2018-01-04 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:53:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On a related note, the vision document for 2018H1 has not yet been created. It's a WIP. If I may make a suggestion, please make the vision documents smaller and more focused. The goals laid out are typically far too broad to

Re: Beta 2.078.0

2017-12-30 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 14:34:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 22:51:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.078.0 release. Release Candidate is tagged and uploaded, website will be updated soon.

Re: Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

2017-12-21 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 23:08:22 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: That are fantastic news. Thanks for working on this topic. Is it possible to define a decimal type with a defined scale and precision? From the examples and the documentation I am not sure whether it is possible. Yes, the Hook

Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

2017-12-21 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
A couple of months ago, Andrei noted that a donor asked for a precise decimal type for D specifically: https://forum.dlang.org/post/osnema$d5s$1...@digitalmars.com. I've also heard this asked for many times, so I decided to start work on a library for eventual proposal to Phobos. I just

Re: static foreach is now in github master

2017-07-20 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 15:46:04 UTC, Seb wrote: https://is.gd/1TCQOh Hmmm, that code is printing 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 for me. Shouldn't it just be printing once?

Re: docarchives.dlang.io - go back in time to previous released versions of dlang.org

2017-07-05 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 July 2017 at 01:39:23 UTC, Seb wrote: ... Thanks for doing this. IMO there should be a link under the "switch to pre-release." link in the current docs. Maybe replace it with a dropdown to select the version from 2.066 to pre-release?

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-04 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 06:09:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, June 03, 2017 02:00:13 Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I recommend a longer deprecation cycle than usual for this, as this will break many legacy libraries that don't get maintained often. A period

Re: DIP 1003 (Remove body as a Keyword) Accepted!

2017-06-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 14:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Congratulations, Jared! https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1003.md Congratulations. I recommend a longer deprecation cycle than usual for this, as this will break many legacy libraries that don't get maintained

Re: DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

2017-05-30 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 30 May 2017 at 18:06:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I fear the conversation will go like this, like it has for me: N: DCompute W: What's DCompute? N: Enables GPU programming with D W: Cool! instead of: N: D-GPU W: Cool! I can use D to program GPUs! This was literally what

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 21:46:10 UTC, cym13 wrote: I am disappointed because there are so many good things to say about this, so many good questions or remarks to make when not familiar with the language, and yet all we get is "Meh, this benchmark shows nothing of D's speed against

Re: DCOnf 2017 videos online

2017-05-08 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 18:11:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: It looks like the good people of Sociomantic have already posted videos of the Dconf2017 on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54uUlXuGhigMsdaNtP6THQ Enjoy. Anyone know why the Q section of Walter's talk was muted?

Re: DCOnf 2017 videos online

2017-05-07 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 21:36:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 18:11:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: It looks like the good people of Sociomantic have already posted videos of the Dconf2017 on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54uUlXuGhigMsdaNtP6THQ Enjoy. And

Re: GC blessed for C++ (again)

2017-04-11 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 16:50:20 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Is there a non-breaking way to do it that would increase the amount of flexibility while keeping the current behavior as a default? For instance, the equivalent of using std.experimental.allocator so that a user could switch between the

Re: GC blessed for C++ (again)

2017-04-11 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 07:02:19 UTC, Swoorup Joshi wrote: Breaking, you mean the standard library? or including user codebases? Taking the GC out of language constructs (e.g. ~=, AAs) would be a massive breaking change and would probably break the majority of D code in existence.

Re: GC blessed for C++ (again)

2017-04-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 04:17:21 UTC, Swoorup Joshi wrote: On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 20:50:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/54xnbg/herb_sutters_experimental_deferred_and_unordered/ Ali Is it possible to have something similar as in library

Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 15:14:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680 Yes, this is for real! Symantec has given their permission to relicense it. Thank you, Symantec! Something that just popped into my head: You've said that you've avoided ever looking at

Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 19:37:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: From what I've seen, the fact that we use it so heavily in the D community is abnormal AFAIK the reasons it was chosen were 1. It's as close to public domain as you can get in international law 2. It's on all of the "Accepted

Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 15:14:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680 Yes, this is for real! Symantec has given their permission to relicense it. Thank you, Symantec! Reddit:

Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 15:14:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680 Yes, this is for real! Symantec has given their permission to relicense it. Thank you, Symantec! A great step forward for the language! A huge thank you to everyone who made this happen.

Re: Beta 2.074.0-b1

2017-04-01 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 1 April 2017 at 11:14:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 10:30:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Very cool about the new format!() feature. What about extending this to writef(ln)? That has already been done: see Phobos PR #5296. I'll try to cherry-pick over

Re: Beta 2.074.0-b1

2017-03-25 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 March 2017 at 21:35:16 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Saturday, 25 March 2017 at 15:56:41 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: Yes, it's still not stable so it will be there for the foreseeable future. For example, just three days ago we pulled in a big bug fix that also was a huge

Re: Beta 2.074.0-b1

2017-03-25 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 March 2017 at 15:09:02 UTC, Dsby wrote: What about DIP1000, will it be default? No. Still way too many bugs. will std.experimental.allocator also experimental? Yes, it's still not stable so it will be there for the foreseeable future. For example, just three days ago we

Re: Beta 2.074.0-b1

2017-03-24 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 March 2017 at 05:19:32 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 24/03/2017 6:35 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.074.0 release. This release comes with plenty of phobos additions and a new std.experimental module. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta

Re: D event in Bucharest

2017-03-18 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 18 March 2017 at 15:02:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll give a talk on D at University "Politehnica" Bucharest on Friday, March 24. Share wide! https://www.facebook.com/events/267258633731095/ Andrei Will the talk be recorded?

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 12:05:32 UTC, Chris wrote: Here's some good advice: https://www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowTopic-g187323-i135-k7931137-Got_ripped_off_by_taxi_driver_at_Berlin_Airport-Berlin.html No Ubers in Berlin?

Re: Updates to the tsv-utils toolkit

2017-02-22 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 18:12:50 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote: Speed matters when processing large data files, and these tools are fast. I've published new benchmarks comparing the tools to similar tools written in several native compiled programming languages. The tools are the fastest

Re: New (page-per-artifact) standard library doc examples are now editable and runnable

2017-02-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 05:06:20 UTC, Seb wrote: Short follow-up: this is now live for the released documentation pages. Enjoy! Please make a post on Reddit! I firmly believe that this puts D at the top of programming language docs. We should advertise!

Re: Beta D 2.073.1-b1

2017-02-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 00:31:17 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.073.1 point release. This version resolves a few regressions and bugs in the 2.073.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.073.1.html Please report any bugs at

Re: two points

2017-02-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 16:48:16 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: which is that after some initial interest and feedback, the PR just got left alone with no decision to accept or reject it, and no indication of why. This is why I only contribute to Phobos to be quite honest. I

Re: two points

2017-02-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 19:36:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Good idea! Please investigate how to get github to generate such emails. In the meantime, the PR guidelines are here: This is already somewhat done with the PR bot we have. The DlangBot notifies reviewers on the DMD repo, but

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - January 26, 2017 - "High Performance Tools in D" by Jon Degenhardt

2017-01-27 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 03:58:26 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: And this: http://youtu.be/-DK4r5xewTY Hey Jon, if you're in this thread, are you able to post any of the code that you use for tsv parsing?

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - January 26, 2017 - "High Performance Tools in D" by Jon Degenhardt

2017-01-26 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 07:53:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I may post a link to Google Hangouts here at the time of the event (7pm Pacific time). Hopefully, the mic will not be muted. (True story! :p) Ali If it's in hangouts, you can use Hangouts On Air to stream it to YouTube. D

Re: Testing in the D Standard Library

2017-01-20 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 January 2017 at 16:50:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Could you please create a new image out of the DMD Ddoc output using 2.073.0 instead. It has a completely new default Ddoc theme. But 2.073 isn't released yet.

Re: Testing in the D Standard Library

2017-01-20 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 January 2017 at 13:35:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Jack Stouffer details how unit testing, code review, and code coverage are handled in the development and maintenance of Phobos. Thanks, Jack! Blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/01/20/testing-in-the-d-standard-library/ Reddit:

Re: Beta 2.073.0-b2

2017-01-14 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 01:03:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second beta for the 2.073.0 release. This adds a few more dmd bugfixes over the first beta. https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/v2.073.0-b1...v2.073.0-b2 http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta

Re: D Blog Stats

2017-01-06 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 January 2017 at 14:54:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've always enjoyed reading end-of-the year stats at other blogs. I thought it would be fun to do the same for the D Blog. If you've been curious about which posts visitors are viewing, or which links they're clicking, this post is

Re: Release D 2.072.0

2016-11-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 01:27:08 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.072.0. http://dlang.org/download.html This is the release ships with the latest version of dub (v1.1.0), comes with lots of phobos additions and native TLS on OSX. See the changelog for more details.

Re: Release 2.071.2

2016-09-19 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 11:08:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.071.2. http://dlang.org/download.html This point release fixes many issues with the new lookup and import rules. It should be used as a stopgap version when updating older code. The deprecations, the old

Re: yet another event loop

2016-08-26 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 18:03:39 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote: https://github.com/caraus-ecms/tanya Please make documentation easily available for your library. I wish to use event loops in D, but I have no desire to wade though someone else's code in order to figure out how use the

Re: Autotesting dub packages with dmd nightly

2016-07-16 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 20:34:49 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: Just to let you guys know - and to be sure no one is doing the same - I decided to go ahead and *start* writing an autotester that will fetch dmd nightly and unittest each dub package. It will be using a classic master-worker

Re: new cpuid is ready for comments

2016-07-14 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 16:30:44 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Please report your CPU (GitHub/Gist): Late 2015 MacBook Pro Intel i5 https://gist.github.com/JackStouffer/6870bde82788ae039afe0aaf0d7bf4ba

Re: DIP1001: Exception Handling Extensions

2016-07-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 19:55:37 UTC, Superstar64 wrote: link: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/9 file: https://github.com/Superstar64/DIPs/blob/exception_extensions/DIPs/DIP1001.md Adding another attribute to the language and having the compiler do magic behind the scenes? No thanks.

Re: DIP: Tail call optimization

2016-07-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 06:29:43 UTC, A.B wrote: Get fucked by yourself asshole ! Your penance is that you'll have to review all the crappy DIPs that will come on GH until your death, now that anyone can post his fantastic idea easily. Hahahahaha. Go back to >>>/g/

Re: DIP: Tail call optimization

2016-07-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 05:55:50 UTC, Dietrich Daroch wrote: Yes, it probably does TCO. The problem is what if you think it does and it cannot do it because of a misunderstanding on when it can be applied or a bug? Then file a bug report?

Re: Vision document for H2 2016

2016-07-08 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 16:55:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think the most important concrete step is to find more reviewers, which is already in the document. As to how to do that, I'm not sure. -- Andrei To be blunt, the vision (and goals in general) are kind of useless without a

Re: First dmd nightly shipping with dub

2016-07-06 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 at 09:28:44 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This is the first nightly dmd build that includes dub binaries. http://nightlies.dlang.org/dmd-2016-07-06/ They will also be part of the upcoming 2.072.y releases. We will sync the dub and dmd release cycles, but not the versioning.

Re: daffodil, a D image processing library

2016-06-30 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 July 2016 at 01:24:55 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Doesn't use allocators or Manu's color work, yup yup not interested. Way to be a dismissive asshole. Let me rewrite that sentence for you: "Hey, nice work, we really need something like this. I'm a bit concerned about the GC

Re: Release D 2.071.1

2016-06-27 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 22:11:53 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.071.1. http://dlang.org/download.html This point release fixes a few issues over 2.071.0, see the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html -Martin Glad to see this out :)

Re: Release D 2.071.1

2016-06-27 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 23:15:06 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote: Awesome, releases are becoming more and more boring. I like it! I wouldn't call 1.0 * -1.0 == 1.0 boring!

Re: Beta D 2.071.1-b2

2016-06-16 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 21:53:23 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second beta for the 2.071.1 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin This release would fix some pretty serious bugs.

Re: Work in Amsterdam

2016-06-15 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:48:07 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: LinkedIn has the D Developer Network (DDN) group with 1900 members (at the moment of writing this post): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3923820 I didn't know about this either. You should make a separate announce post about

Re: Beta D 2.071.1-b2

2016-06-08 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 21:53:23 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second beta for the 2.071.1 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin 2.072 is getting rather long in the tooth:

Re: The Official D Blog is Live

2016-06-05 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: so if you have any suggestions fire away. Two things I noticed: 1. The site doesn't gzip its responses. This can lead to a 30%-40% reduction in total page size if used. 2. The server isn't using Wordpress' custom server error

Re: The Official D Blog is Live

2016-06-03 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the

Re: Beta D 2.071.1-b2

2016-06-03 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 21:53:23 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second beta for the 2.071.1 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin Please consider pulling

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-06-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 21:21:50 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I was a little confused by something in the main autodecoding thread, so I read your article again. Unfortunately, I don't think my confusion is resolved. I was trying one of your examples (full code I used below). You claim it works, but

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-05-18 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 22:23:45 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Is this true of all @property functions? No, this is purely a range thing where it's legal to have your front be a public member variable rather than a getter function. Should this be noted in the spec? While somewhat supported in

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-05-18 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 20:10:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: At this point, if anyone ever calls front with parens, they're doing it wrong. $ cd ~/dlang/phobos && grep -r "\.front()" * | wc -l 3 Not bad. One is commented out and the other two look intentional.

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-05-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 16:24:31 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:06:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/d_auto_decoding_and_you.html Based on the recent thread in General, I wrote this blog post that's designed to be part beginner tutorial, part

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-05-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:44:06 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: ... Thanks, fixed all issues. Like the article, pretty much sums up my thoughts too. Thanks!

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-05-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:16:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Starting to read it, see errors in your examples: is(s[0] == immutable char) -> is(typeof(s[0]) == immutable(char)) is(s.front == dchar) -> is(typeof(s.front()) == dchar) Thanks, fixed.

D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-05-17 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://jackstouffer.com/blog/d_auto_decoding_and_you.html Based on the recent thread in General, I wrote this blog post that's designed to be part beginner tutorial, part objective record of the debate over it, and finally my opinions on the matter. When I first learned about auto-decoding,

Re: Beta D 2.071.1-b1

2016-05-16 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 04:40:21 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.071.1 point release. A few issues remain to be fixed before the next beta. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

Re: The D language online tour - tour.dlang.org

2016-05-16 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 18:02:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This is great work, thanks! Please announce in social media as well! -- Andrei Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4jn6ks/the_online_d_language_tour/

Re: GSoC 2016 - Precise GC

2016-05-03 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 16:15:27 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: I agree, but a precise heap scan should be the easiest part of this project. Rainer Schuetze has already implemented this and presented it at a dconf a few years ago(2013?). My plan is to use that since I know it works, and that

Re: Release D 2.071.0

2016-05-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 16:47:13 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: with 2.070.2: real0m9.775s user0m9.036s sys 0m0.700s with 2.071.0: real0m45.011s user0m41.760s sys 0m3.144s Wow, that's pretty awful. Have you tried using digger to find out what caused the slow down?

Re: Release D 2.071.0

2016-04-05 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 at 22:43:05 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.071.0. http://dlang.org/download.html This release fixes many long-standing issues with imports and the module system. See the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html -Martin

Re: Units of Measurement Library: units-d

2016-04-01 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 March 2016 at 23:58:54 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: I've put David Nadlinger work together with my tweaks on top at https://github.com/nordlow/units-d to make it easier to experiment with. PR are very welcome. Nice work. I have yet to play around with it, but this is definitely

Re: DConf 2016 announces programme, general registration opened thrugh April 22

2016-04-01 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 at 04:42:17 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I am not sure this has much value. The main benefit of live stream is that everyone can ask questions online and those will be forwarded to speakers. Isn't it better to simply wait for recorded high quality videos otherwise? P.S. devs

Re: Blog article on new import changes

2016-03-29 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 at 15:25:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I anticipate 2.071.0 is going to cause a lot of deprecation messages and strange errors to occur, due to the fixes of very long-standing import bugs. I wrote a blog post (actually my first ever) on this, let me know what

Re: D Profile Viewer

2016-03-28 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 23:43:51 UTC, Andrew wrote: On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 03:41:14 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: If I could make one suggestion, this should be added to dub as an executable, so I can do dub fetch d-profile-viewer dub run d-profile-viewer Done! Works like a charm

dateparser hits 1.0

2016-03-28 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
A little while ago, I wrote about a library I was writing to parse strings and return SysTime's, http://forum.dlang.org/post/odowolmiykkdigfit...@forum.dlang.org Well, that library has reached 1.0! https://github.com/JackStouffer/date-parser I'm quite happy with it; it's reasonably fast for

Re: Article on Introspective programming

2016-03-28 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 12:47:02 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: http://thewilsonator.github.io/update/2016/03/28/better-vulkan-bindings.html I would like some feedback before this is posted to reddit. Come to think of it, putting the project on github would be a good idea, but unfortunately

Re: D Profile Viewer

2016-03-25 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 20:34:07 UTC, Andrew wrote: Hi I wrote a program to turn the non-human-readable trace.log into an interactive HTML file that can be used to help profile a D program. Its here: https://bitbucket.org/andrewtrotman/d-profile-viewer There's also a readme that

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-19 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 21:55:23 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: The code and docs can be found here: https://github.com/JackStouffer/date-parser Quick update: all dateutil tests are now passing. It can how parse just about any date format you can throw at it :)

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:12:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I haven't read the article yet, but you'll get more interest by putting a summary as the first comment on reddit. Thanks for the advice, I think it caused more people to read it. Also, I forgot to mention in the article that the

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 23:31:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:17:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: system for my personal projects), I can totally sympathize with the annoyances of using a dynamically-typed language, as well as dodgy iterator designs like

New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello everyone, I have spent the last two weeks porting the date string parsing functionality from the popular Python library, dateutil, to D. I have written about my experience here: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/porting_dateutil.html The code and docs can be found here:

Sublime Text 3 Gets Better D Support

2016-01-27 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sublime Text is a very popular text editor, and for a while now it's had marginal D support. What has changed recently is updated syntax highlighting to support all the new keywords that have come in the last couple of years and UDAs

Re: Sublime Text 3 Gets Better D Support

2016-01-27 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 19:15:02 UTC, Damian wrote: Thank you, this is very much welcome! Wishlist: Will we see some dub support integration for building? I find when using rust the cargo build support is excellent, I wish we had this for D in sublime :) I actually didn't do this,

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-24 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 02:37:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hot off the press! http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1 -- Andrei My biggest issue with these documents is that they have good ideas but rarely have plans to achieve them. As a consequence, most of these documents say how

Re: Bruce Eckel is evaluating languages

2016-01-23 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 20:19:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/426pwq/a_language_is_more_than_a_language/ Would someone from the D community add D to his project: http://bruceeckel.github.io/Language-Evaluation-Checklist/ Ali Meh. Doesn't

Re: Flipboard collection of D articles

2016-01-09 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 08:43:52 UTC, florin wrote: So if there are any Flipboard users around interested in adding stuff there, please let me know and I will invite you to manage the said collection. Sure, I'm @jackstouffer on flipboard.

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2016-01-07 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 00:32:05 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Rory McGuire wrote: On 27 Dec 2015 6:25 PM, "Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On 12/27/15 1:27 AM, Rory

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-04 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 02:01:05 UTC, Ilya wrote: Please add links to 1. Mir: http://code.dlang.org/packages/mir 2. Documentation: http://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_ndslice.html 3. DlangScience example Thanks! -- Ilya Updated. I also changed the example slightly from

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-03 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 01:09:30 UTC, Ilya wrote: To be clear: there is NO data in Article example. Only CPU registers are used. It is not fair. -- Ilya Ok, I see were I made the mistake, I apologize. I believed that since I was only testing the np.mean line of code, that the lazy

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-03 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 00:24:51 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 18:56:07 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: I still have to disagree with you that the example I submitted was fair. Accessing global memory in D is going to be much slower than accessing stack memory, […]

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-03 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 00:17:23 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 00:09:33 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 23:51:09 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: This benchmark is _not_ lazy, so ndslice faster than Numpy only 3.5 times. I don't know what

Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://jackstouffer.com/blog/nd_slice.html https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3z6f7a/using_d_and_stdndslice_as_a_numpy_replacement/

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 22:15:03 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Broken link in "For a more in depth look at ranges, see The official D tutorial's section on ranges". Ali Fixed, thanks!

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-02 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 23:51:09 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: This benchmark is _not_ lazy, so ndslice faster than Numpy only 3.5 times. I don't know what you mean here, I made sure to call std.array.array to force allocation.

Voting Open For std.experimental.ndslice

2015-12-12 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://forum.dlang.org/post/yeebmehdqgqdfkzmz...@forum.dlang.org

Re: Testing Nightly Build Service

2015-12-12 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 12 December 2015 at 12:08:50 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: As you might already know from the last sprint review (http://forum.dlang.org/post/56592679.3010604@dawg.) Does anyone who doesn't work on DMD read those? we've setup a server to build nightlies. The service is still in a

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